overheating

  1. Windows 7 Keeping Your Cool

    Electronics and certainly PCs do not like heat. It is important that these devices stay cool @ all times and throughout their lifetime. That said, here is one of those "Best Practice" things that I suggest all too often does not even occur to people and that they do not think about or do on...
  2. Windows 8 Keeping Your Cool

    Electronics and certainly PCs do not like heat. It is important that these devices stay cool @ all times and throughout their lifetime. That said, here is one of those "Best Practice" things that I suggest all too often does not even occur to people and that they do not think about or do on...
  3. Windows 7 BSOD Wdf01000.sys just started out of the blue?

    Hey, Two days ago after using computer for over a year (Acer Veriton Windows 7, core i7) started bsod randomly and only shows post symptoms in event viewer. ran Bluscreenview and it states: "The problem seems to be caused by the following file: Wdf01000.sys DRIVER_IRQL_NOT LESS_OR EQUAL STOP...
  4. Windows 7 Random BSOD's + Dmp's

    I get random bsod's every day after i have been used my computer for few hours, my computer is relatevely new and i have cleaned the hardware so its not overheating or atleast i think its not. here is the dmps
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    Windows 8 New Windows 8 PC Randomly Shutting Down

    I have been monitoring the temperatures using Speccy, all very reasonable (CPU 30-35C, Mobo 28-35C) How can I check what is causing this problem? Does it report the error codes somewhere that caused the shut down? The CPU fan has been having a problem where every 10 minutes it spins up to...
  6. Windows XP Intel Pentium 4 HT 3.00 Maximum Temperature

    I just got around to installing Speedfan on my IBM ThinkCentre M52 and was surprised at how hot it is running (see screenshot)Both the processor and internal hard drives are much higher than I'm accustomed to. I know that the hard drive is too hot, but with the design of the case, I can't think...
  7. Windows 7 Loss of power of laptop; no bluescreen.

    Playing a game and quite often the screen blacks out. When I alt-tab it goes to windows logon, making me log in to my account again. After about 4 or 5 of these occurrences the laptop just shuts itself down. No bluescreen and the charger's in with 100% of battery. I have enabled minidump...
  8. Windows 7 Recent bsods

    For the past week i've been having BSODs but only when i multi-task or run demanding games. I think it might be my computer overheating but i'm not sure. My logs, hardware, info, etc is attached. Couldn't find the dump file...
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    Windows 7 Laptop Motherboard Issue!

    i have a dell inspiron m5030 laptop. when i boot it up, there's a blank screen, and beeps. 7 beeps to be exact, indicating that there's motherboard failure. i read a fix on dell's website, quoted as follows: i did this fix, and it worked! but now everytime i shut down my laptop afterwards, i...
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    Windows 7 GPU Over Use

    Unless I am playing games from XP or older my GPU runs at 80-99% usage. When I am on my desktop the GPU idles at 0% and depending on which Graphics card I have in either 30-35 degrees Celsius or 40-50 degrees Celsius. When I am in-game though on any game but the old XP ones no matter which...
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    Windows 8 Laptop Shutting down automatically while watching 720p Videos (NO BSOD)

    Hey all, I am having a problem in my lenovo z560 laptop where whenevr i play 720p videos, the laptop automatically shuts itself down after a few minutes.. At first i thot it was just that one video file, but soon i realised that it was all 720p video files, but normal HDTV files work great. So...
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    Windows 7 A year after - Problem returns.

    Hi there everyone. I'ts been over a year since I last wrote on this forum. Last time was because I had several bsod at the start of summer which ended up being fixed by cleaning the cooler. Well, here I am again, with the same problem, except that cleaning my computer didn't work this time. It...
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    Windows 7 Gateway P78 help with Clean Install Windows 7 won't Boot from disk

    I have this Gateway P-7811FX that had Vista on it. I was trying to do a factory restore before I install Windos 7 when it began asking me for a HDD password. Google search told me I'd have to send the laptop to Gateway to get that unlocked... for a fee. So I ordered a new hard drive and want...
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    Windows 7 CPU speed changing

    I NEED HELP!! my cpu speed keeps changing from 999 mhz to about 3500 mhz. this mostly happens while im playing a game. my screen goes blue then turns black and after it goes back into the game. what can i do to fix this? or what to check for? i have posted on the B.S.O.D also heres the link ...
  15. Windows 7 A few BSOD's over the last week.

    So, I've been having some weird BSOD's. The reason why they're weird is I don't actually see the blue screen, it just freezes for a few seconds, turns off and turns back on. I assumed it was overheating, but it appears to be not. I've come here because I'm completely clueless as to what's...
  16. Windows 7 A few BSOD's over the last week or so.

    So, I've been having some weird BSOD's. The reason why they're weird is I don't actually see the blue screen, it just freezes for a few seconds, turns off and turns back on. I assumed it was overheating, but it appears to be not. I've come here because I'm completely clueless as to what's...
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    Windows 7 Random Restarting With No BSOD

    Hi there, I've been all over trying to solve this issue and nobody seems to have any answers. Hopefully you all will be able to help =P My System: EVGA SR-2 2x Xeon E5620 2x Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO (both in Push-Pull) 24GB Corsair XMS3 1333mhz RAM Zotac GTX 670 4GB OS HDD: Western Digital...
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    Windows 7 Laptop freezes often, when using Adobe products, at startup, etc.

    Hi everyone! I'm new here, and I'm also relatively new to computer nitty-gritties. However I've been facing this problem for quite some time and it's gotten worse recently so I've decided to seek help here! For a few months, my Asus U36JC laptop has been freezing quite often (70% of the time?)...
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    Windows 7 BSOD - w7f and error codes attached

    BSOD error message 0x0000007f (ox0000000000000008, 0x0000000080031, ox00000000000006f8, oxfffff800028dabd0) Just curious what the stuff in the parenthesis means? i believe ox7f is hardware/driver issue, but i'm not a doctor. i don't know. This has been happening it seems almost randomly. I...
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    Windows 7 Compound BSOD issue after coolant leak

    I had an all-in-one liquid cpu cooler leak coolant all over my PC last week, luckily it shut down from overheating when there was no coolant left in the loop. I disassembled my PC, cleaned everything with alcohol and let it dry. Then i bought an air cooler and installed it. After installing the...